Also that the Army of Light has strip-mined the planet even faster than the Iron Horde could to furnish their armies.
While I’m still of the opinion that Grom became Warchief because all the other options were either Lightforged, Lightbound or dead, and he’s the only veteran left who knows how to lead and motivate an army under such dire circumstances, I don’t exactly trust him. Yes, Grom might not lie, but he’s certainly not afraid to omit certain key facts.
He’s done it twice at least in both timelines, both versions of himself. And while I don’t think the Mag’har are entirely faultless in the scenario, it’s pretty plain to see they’re not only the under-dogs in the situation, but they’re the defenders rather than the aggressors to the whole Lightbinding of Draenor angle High Exarch Comrade Yrel is going for.
Seriously, I can’t wait for her to pop back up and tell the Alliance Adventurers that she’s taken inspiration from their actions during their campaign on Draenor and to hear peoples’ blood run cold in response.
Uhm, what was the other unpopular opinion I had? Uhmmm … oh right, the shades.
For those of us who play Horde, or both factions, when you’re fighting the ‘Shades’ during the Vol’jin arc of the War Campaign, when you first meet them, some of them will utter this line:
“We tried … to spare you … the truth …”
Why would knowing who was behind Vol’jin’s death and subsequent banishment to and then return from the Other Side, the Shadow Lands, be something bad?
And this ‘we’ they use. Is it the Shades themselves, or are they merely servants of a greater power still? Their similarity to the old ghost model is not coincidence, but their appearance is more that of a hooded figure rather than ragged robes and cowl of ‘normal’ ghosts.
And later on, at the Broken Shore helping Vol’jin recover his lost memories and trying to understand why the Loa weren’t able to aid him during that awful battle, and once more when you’re at the gates of Orgrimmar where he’s pondering just who spoke through him to name Sylvanas as Warchief, the Shades that spawn say another, more ominous line:
“You seek forbidden knowledge.”
Why is this knowledge forbidden? What is so awful about mortal races knowing what lies beyond the veil of death? Why does Bwonsamdi refer to himself, Arthas and Eyir as ‘anchors’ between this world and the Other Side? Is there literally no paradise like so many races speak of, the Trolls ‘Other Side’, the Endless Plains of the Tauren afterlife, the hazy boundary that the Orcish Ancestor Spirits dwell in to guide and protect their descendants?
Yet we’ve seen all of these things, or at least we’ve seen evidence of their existence.
Does that mean that if you don’t somehow fit with your race’s beliefs, or a big enough belief system, that you’ll simply go to the Shadow Lands and be trapped in a murky, distorted version of reality until you go mad and lose all sense of ego, dissolving into the plane? Or is it that all forms of afterlife are merely methods of processing souls to create new souls in a form of reincarnation, that there is no ‘eternal peace’, just perpetually being put through the meat grinder of life?
Is that why the Night Elves never really recovered? Because many of their dead become Wisps and thus servants of Cenarius? They never properly go through the cycle and thus starve Elune, their ‘Anchor’, of the souls needed to fuel herself, and this is why she’s so powerless and passive compared to all the other Demi-Gods and similarly-powerful entities vying for our worship?
There’s so many ways this could go and I just want to know what it all means!